Thanks a ton!! I screwed up and left off the border layer anyway, revealing a single black dot in the lower right corner. Argghhhh! So  I'm gonna delete it, and re-up it. Normally, I wouldn't do this, trying to avoid the "no wip posting" issue but in this one case, I screwed up the upload anyway. So I'm gonna spend a night studying your awesome rework and re-doing mine. Thanks again for all your help.

Update: Just saw that you can update submissions so no need to delete. Lol, I love it whenever I'm a newb again somewhere :)

Thanks a lot for commenting!

Getting better and better. ;)

I think you over-dithered it a bit which makes it hard to see clear shadows and midtones.

Here is a quick and dirty overpaint.

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I formed some clusters and planes to define the forms, changed the dark brown shadow colour with that juicy saturated Orange and added some spec light from the blue sky. Try to keep it simple. ;)

 It looks nice :)